Straight from Trolltech, this book covers all you need to build industrial-strength applications with Qt 3.2.x and C++--applications that run natively on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and embedded Linux with no source code changes! The book teaches solid Qt programming practices; it is not a rehash of the documentation.

Build powerful C++ GUI applications quickly and easily

Design dialogs and main windows visually and in code

Learn Qt's innovative type-safe signals and slots mechanism

Use layouts to create forms that automatically size and scale

Create custom signals, slots, events, and controls

Program the ''Qt way'' with techniques for Qt 3.2 that'll work with Qt 4

Code applications with menus, toolbars, dialogs, and drag and drop

Utilize 2D and 3D graphics, multithreading, and networking

Write database and XML applications

Internationalize to reach foreign markets

Exploit platform-specific-features like ActiveX

Already using Qt or just starting out? Evaluating Qt or managing it? Building open source applications--or commercial applications? Want to develop for Windows without buying an expensive compiler? Whatever your goal, this is the only book you need!

By: Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield. Published by Prentice Hall. Part of the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.